This little sketchbook drawing is to celebrate my successful completion of setting up OpenBSD as a gateway, DNS host, NAT router, and packet filter with pf. I'm working slowly and making sure I understand each step. Very happy with it so far.
A giant golden puffer fish with an enormous open mouth acts as a gateway for a highway traveled by green blobs. It represents OpenBSD's Puffy mascot filtering packets with the pf packet filter.
Podczas drzemki na promie śniło mi się, że wziąłem z pracy zezłomowanego laptopa i stawiałem na nim #OpenBSD, bo chciałem sobie zrobić desktop Emacs-only. Wogle jest takie coś? Zdjęcie dla atencji.
Zachód słońca nad Rugią. Wg mapy przepływałem akurat nad tymi rurami gazowymi, co się same wybuchły.
It's up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
For whatever reason? The rpki-client.org website main page hasn't been updated to reflect the release of 9.7 yet, but it's there on the mirrors (and I verified the tarball with signify) and an undeadly.org story was posted, so I am guessing I didn't really beat anything to the punch so much as the World Wide Web isn't a first class citizen contrasted with those toiling in the realms of securing routing protocols, as it should be.
Someone was wondering about color emoji support in terminal using #OpenBSD. I never really checked before but on 7.8, it does work OOTB.
This is #Neomutt inside a #tmux session ran from #Xfce terminal. But it also works in plain #Xterm; since you have it render UTF-8 characters with DejaVu Sans for example.
A list of email items. 3 of them have colored emojis in their subject.
AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.
This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.
Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.
In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.
Excellent. Hopefully some of them will have hardware that supports #openBSD that I can pick up for pennies on the dollar. I believe the #thinkpad x1 carbon is already on soldered RAM. I can see many in the #Linux crowd stand to profit handsomely from this, given their much more broad hardware support 😜
A cartoon of a man in a black hoodie wearing half a luchador's mask and black cap on his head. There is a camera hanging around the man's neck. Next to him is a German Shepherd puppy with a purple collar. In the background is a lake, forest and snow-capped mountains,
The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.
A new seasonal look for my family instance of famsite. 🦃
The theme changes are pure CSS (and a touch of JS for the countdown). I made the turkey SVG in
@inkscape this morning. It's just a handful of shapes with color gradients.
To run, famsite just needs PHP and SQLite on a webserver somewhere. I'm serving mine with OpenBSD's httpd on a VPS hosted by
@OpenBSDAms . The schema has 3 tables. The whole thing fits on a floppy. 💾
Screenshot of the famsite website - simple "social media" for friends and family. The new theme has autumnal browns and oranges. There is a colorful SVG turkey in the corner with a banner that says "25 days until Thanksgiving!"
Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices ( www.notebookcheck.net )